I’ve been thinking a lot about calling someone in, to get rid of the ghost. Then again, like I said, this ghost is not entirely mine to bust. In a small way, they’re just here, too. It’s like that punchline to that old Myron Cohen joke, “Everybody’s got to be someplace.”

About Laura Jayne

Laura Jayne Martin is a writer living in New York City. Her work has been featured in/on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Village Voice, The Toast, Cosmopolitan Magazine, HuffPost, The Hairpin, Splitsider, and elsewhere. It is also in the book “Fakes” edited by Matthew Vollmer & David Shields, available from W.W. Norton at bookstores, at Amazon, and at bookstores in the Amazon.